What's left to say about Sepultura? That it's probably the best selling third world band ever? That they're going facedown to the ground since the leaving of Max "I am the Soulfly-Ego" Cavalera? "Chaos A.D." went golden and "Roots" went double gold in Holland (trust me, that's a good thing). That the difference between their first and last records is so huge that even the development of a butterfly contains more radical changes? That "Roots" was the first piece of metal I bought? Nah, I think the band-name speaks for itself. The style on this first piece of Sepultura is totally different from "Roots". They started as a full-on death metal band, finding their roots on "Beneath The Remains' (1989) and re-discovered 'em in 1991, with the release of "Arise". And then, five years later, one of the finest works of the 90's is released.

Roots was Max Cavalera's last album with Sepultura before his departure, and he did not exactly go out with a bang. The predecessor to Roots, Chaos A.D., saw the band move away from thrash and towards a simpler, moderately-paced death metal sound that, while differing from their previous material, showed promise. Roots takes this stylistic change further, abandoning thrash-inspired death for death-inspired nu metal. Truthfully, this is largely a nu metal album punctuated by Max Cavalera's recognizable growls, Igor's trademark drumming, and some traditional Brazilian instrumentation provided by Brazilian musician Carlinhos Brown and the native Xavante tribe. The genesis of Soulfly is here, and is not entirely welcome.

This album is completely and utterly overrated. In my opinion it is just too long and the amount of filler material here is extraordinary.

...However, the riffs are fucking glorious (when not overused) and Cavalera's voice is as threatening as ever. Also, the atmosphere in general is gargantuan. So yeah, whilst this is far from their best album, it has its moments.

This album is completely and utterly overrated. In my opinion it is just too long and the amount of filler material here is extraordinary.

...However, the riffs are fucking glorious (when not overused) and Cavalera's voice is as threatening as ever. Also, the atmosphere in general is gargantuan. So yeah, whilst this is far from their best album, it has its moments.

Another Super Over-reacted album - Beneath The Remains.
Everything must be in place otherwise it can not be great.

This album is completely and utterly overrated. In my opinion it is just too long and the amount of filler material here is extraordinary.

...However, the riffs are fucking glorious (when not overused) and Cavalera's voice is as threatening as ever. Also, the atmosphere in general is gargantuan. So yeah, whilst this is far from their best album, it has its moments.

Another Super Over-reacted album - Beneath The Remains.
Everything must be in place otherwise it can not be great.

Don't you mean 'Over-rated'? But yeah, i agree that 'Beneath the remains' is overrated too. I'll just go with 'arise' as my favourite sepultura album.

This album is completely and utterly overrated. In my opinion it is just too long and the amount of filler material here is extraordinary.

...However, the riffs are fucking glorious (when not overused) and Cavalera's voice is as threatening as ever. Also, the atmosphere in general is gargantuan. So yeah, whilst this is far from their best album, it has its moments.

Another Super Over-reacted album - Beneath The Remains.
Everything must be in place otherwise it can not be great.

Don't you mean 'Over-rated'? But yeah, i agree that 'Beneath the remains' is overrated too. I'll just go with 'arise' as my favourite sepultura album.

I meant "over-reacted" which is more serious than overrated. Music critic overrated the album and the crowd follow it created "over-reacted" phenorama, lasted for so many years, amazing mistakes.

Arise is good...Chaos A.D is my favorite, very much underrated ! I only collect thes two.

This album is completely and utterly overrated. In my opinion it is just too long and the amount of filler material here is extraordinary.

...However, the riffs are fucking glorious (when not overused) and Cavalera's voice is as threatening as ever. Also, the atmosphere in general is gargantuan. So yeah, whilst this is far from their best album, it has its moments.

Another Super Over-reacted album - Beneath The Remains.
Everything must be in place otherwise it can not be great.

Don't you mean 'Over-rated'? But yeah, i agree that 'Beneath the remains' is overrated too. I'll just go with 'arise' as my favourite sepultura album.

I meant "over-reacted" which is more serious than overrated. Music critic overrated the album and the crowd follow it created "over-reacted" phenorama, lasted for so many years, amazing mistakes.

Arise is good...Chaos A.D is my favorite, very much underrated ! I only collect thes two.

Aha, interesting:) Yeah, i agree Chaos A.D. is underrated. It shows sepultura moving in a different direction,yet also has some killer riffs and their 'thrash metal attitude' of the 80's.

There is some really good stuff like "Roots Bloody Roots" and "Ratamahatta", but there is also some pretty generic stuff that doesn't seem too standout. Overall I'll give it a 7, kept me entertained. Most definitely not thrash though...

I'm a big Sepultura's fan but this album is a disappointment for me. Max wanted to do something new and the result is pretty average. Special mention for the song "Roots Bloody Roots" of course, I can't deny it. If only the entire album would be like that...

I think it's a real mixed bag. I can appreciate the vision behind the album and occassionally they pull it off really well. But some of the stuff is really poorly conceived such as Lookaway and there's too many tribal bits and they occassionally ruin the flow of what are straightforward groove metal songs.

I also like the sense of nostalgia I get from listening to it. It takes me back to when I was 17 and this was one of the few metal albums being cranked at parties (it had only been out for a year at that stage) along with Pantera and Alice In Chains.

So it's decent even if inconsistent. As for the irritating bits, there's always the skip button!